Homeopathy - Fundamentals - week 1

Essay on a new principle to discover
the curative properties of medicinal

substances, followed by insights on
principles accepted until today

By Christian Samuel Hahnemann

In Journal of Practical Pharmacology and

Surgery – Iena University Library , 1796

Edited by C.W. Hufeland

...Every efficient medicine has the
power to induce a specific type of
disease in the human body and, the
more effective the medicine, the more
characteristic, distinct and violent the
disease...

Christian Samuel Hahnemann

(1755-1843)

Any substance able to trigger, either in
measurable, toxic or physiological doses or in
infinitesimal dilutions in an apparently healthy, yet sensitive subject, a subjective and sometimes objective (lesion) clinical picture is capable, in adequate doses, according to the particular case, to cure in an individual made sensitive by his/her disease a similar morbid clinical picture, except for irreversible lesions.

Homeopathic pharmacology

Denis DEMARQUE - Homeopathy, medicine of experience

Homeopathy practice

a therapeutic practice

based on

a thorough and complete clinical observation

leading to

the use of homeopathic medicines

derived from

an original pharmacology

stemming from an experimental validation

SIMILITUDE

Homeopathy, a potential therapeutic among others

• clinical observation

• diagnosing the disease, its clinical expression and the patient’s individual reactions

• prognosis

• taking into account the possibilities of all other potential therapeutics